The Philosophy of Vilém Flusser with Rainer Guldin
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Is It Possible for a Philosopher to Really Be a Philosopher if They Only Know One Language?
I wonder if that's in this act of retranslation retranslation well I mean perhaps you get down to almost some sort of strange you know a language or something. He criticizes strongly nationalist ways of looking at the world as a dangerous limitation and he says for every language you have a different kind of life so yeah he would say well it's not really enough to speak only one language but that's also dangerous because everybody is in a way multilingual even if he speaks only in one national language and languages used in non-academic domains of life.
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